US presidents and former presidents survive assassinations
According to CNN, during the pre-Civil War period, President Andrew Jackson was shot while attending a funeral at the Capitol Building. The shooter fired two shots but were unsuccessful.
Like the shooting of Donald Trump, former President Theodore Roosevelt re-elected in the 1912 campaign. He was shot on his way to speak in Milwaukee. Roosevelt later said that his 50-page copy of the speech slowed the bullet even though it remained in his body for the rest of his life. He gave a speech despite the shooting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president when an assassin shot him in Miami in 1933. The shooter, Guiseppe Zangara, shot President Trump but killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
Harry Truman, who took office as president after Trump's death, was shot by Puerto Ricanism in 1950.
Alabama Governor George Wallace, a white nationalist who ran for third president in 1972, was shot after a campaign event outside Washington, D.C. The shooting left him paralyzed from the waist down.
President Donald Ford faced two consecutive assassination plots in 1975. Lynette Sqeaky Fromme, a convert of the Charles Manson sectional leader, was killed before she could fire at Mr. Donald Ford in Sacramento, California. A few weeks later, a woman named Sara Jane Moore fired at Ford in San Francisco but missed.
President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C, after giving a speech. His press secretary, James Brady, was injured more seriously and later became an activist for gun control. The person who fired the shot at Mr. Reagan, John Hinckley, has been in a mental institution for decades. He was released from court supervision in 2022.
A man in Idaho was charged with a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama in 2011.
All US presidents face threats and all former US presidents are also protected by the Secret Service for life.
Four US presidents died in assassination
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die in an assassination attempt. He was shot later in 1865 during an appearance at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth, an actor in a play that night. Booth fled the scene and was arrested and shot a few weeks later in Virginia.
President James Garfield was shot at a train station in Washington, D.C., in July 1881. He died from his injuries a few months later, in September, in New Jersey.
President Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a mentally ill man angry at not getting a job in Mr. Garfield's administration. Guiteau was sentenced and hanged in the same year.
President William McKinley was shot in Buffalo, New York in September01 by Leon Czolgosz, an an intolerant government official.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in November 1963 while he was in a convertible limousine. Oswald was arrested a few days after the shooting. Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas.
Robert F. Kennedy - the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy - was a New York state senator when he ran for president in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night he won the Democratic primary in California.
Robert F. Kennedy was seriously injured when Sirhan Sirhan, 24, a Palestinian, fired from a gun, believed to be in retaliation for his support for Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War. Robert F. Kennedy died 25 hours later.
Sirhan has been arrested, tried and convicted, the Kennedy assassination, like his brother, continues to be a widely analyzed topic with many plot theories.
